Investors in Lexington Realty Trust saw new options become available today, for the August 2018 expiration. One of the key inputs that goes into the price an option buyer is willing to pay, is the time value, so with 242 days until expiration the newly available contracts represent a potential opportunity for sellers of puts or calls to achieve a higher premium than would be available for the contracts with a closer expiration.

The most recent short interest data has been released for the 10/13/2017 settlement date, which shows a 851,858 share increase in total short interest for Lexington Realty Trust , to 4,848,359, an increase of 21.32% since 09/29/2017. Total short interest is just one way to look at short data; another metric that we here at Dividend Channel find particularly useful is the "days to cover" metric because it considers both the total shares short and the average daily volume of shares traded.